Every Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning Stunt & Action Sequence, Ranked

 

Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning!Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning contains seven exciting stunts and fight scenes, and they are all ranked here. As the eighth and presumed final installment in the long-running Mission: Impossible franchise, the film delivers the death-defying stunts, global-scale action, and fearless Tom Cruise performance that audiences have grown to expect. Every entry in the action saga has pushed itself to the next level, and The Final Reckoning packs its nearly three-hour runtime with thrilling action scenes and some of Tom Cruise's most ambitious stunts.

Picking up after the events of Dead Reckoning Part One, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning follows Ethan and the IMF as they race to stop the AI threat known as the Entity before it gains complete control of the world's digital systems and launches a nuclear apocalypse​​​​. With the future of the world hanging in the balance, the team faces impossible odds in a high-stakes, globe-trotting mission. From exploring sunken submarines to defusing bombs and death-defying fights in the air, this mission puts the gang in some pretty precarious positions, as these seven scenes prove.

7Ethan Breaks Paris Out Of Graz-Karlau Prison

The First Action Sequence Of The Film Is A Bit Underwhelming

The first action sequence of the film sees Ethan breaking Paris out of the notorious Graz-Karlau prison in Austria, in hopes of getting Paris to help locate Gabriel, who stabbed her on the train in Dead Reckoning Part One. The sequence plays as a covert infiltration, with Paris initially fighting Ethan and Benji, who are in disguise, blending stealth and bursts of hand-to-hand combat.

While the choreography is tight and Pom Klementieff shows her excellent fighting skills, the scene is somewhat short and falls a bit flat. It's over before it really begins and turns into more of a tense stare-down than a memorable fight sequence. It serves more as a setup than a spectacle as it reintroduces Paris as an ally, establishes the team's status, and sets the tone for the team's mission.